Labour Rights

Officially, 2.4 million Indonesian children work in factories or on the streets, instead of being at school. Unofficially, the number could be 10 million. SHARON BESSELL talks with some working children, and asks what is being done.

Making idealism work is very hard. NORI ANDRIYANI, with extraordinary honesty, tells why.

Should child labour be abolished or regulated? WENDY MILLER spoke with activist ARIST MERDEKA SIRAIT during the Child Labour Conference at Melbourne's Monash University.

PETER HANCOCK finds that women in a rural Nike factory are considerably worse off than those who work in other factories.

AHMAD SOFIAN explores the lives of young people on hundreds of isolated fishing platforms in the Malacca Straits

Now is the time to create a fairer system

The elections show that Indonesian workers are not yet a major political presence

From workers’ rights to democracy

Workers with soul take their message to the kampung

A farmer’s daughter takes control and makes a difference

It’s been a long struggle trying to get unions to listen to women

Fauzi Abdullah reflects on more than a quarter of a century of organising

Greater freedom to organise also means more opportunity for division

Why is organised labour missing from the democracy movement?

Just a public relations exercise that undermines workers’ rights

Indonesia’s labour movement needs to consolidate the gains of 1998

Workers unite to win severance pay for retrenched Securicor Indonesia employees.